Sentence examples for standard wage from inspiring English sources

The eroded minimum wage has now become the standard wage for almost all those newly employed in the manual sector (many graduates) and they now have no way to protect themselves.

The militia members were supposed to work a minimum of eight hours a day and were to be paid a stipend of about $28 a day, a relatively standard wage.

When the Russell Sage Foundation announced a grant to help finance the survey, it said that low-wage workers were "hard to find" for interviews and that "government compliance surveys shy away from the difficult task of measuring workplace practices beyond the standard wage, benefits and hours questions".

The value of these remittances has fallen steadily over the past two years, as the rupee has appreciated by some 14% against the US dollar, and consequently against the dirham.According to the Times of India, the standard wage of an Indian construction worker in Dubai has remained fixed at about Dh550 (US$150) per month for the past four years, with specialised workers receiving about Dh700/month.

The standard wage back home doesn't matter when it's not home anymore.

This paper also estimates the following standard wage regressions for each of the participating countries to assess the country-specific mismatch wage penalties.

Volkswagen recently persuaded its union to let it hire workers at less than standard wages in exchange for a pledge to build a new factory in Germany rather than elsewhere.

The measure doesn't detail what the wages would be besides that they will be "area standard wages" set by a city agency.

In response, Rusty Hicks, executive secretary-treasurer of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, said it would be up to the city's Bureau of Contract Administration to decide how to set area standard wages.

Although his father left an estate of nearly fourteen talents, (equivalent to about 220 years of a laborer's income at standard wages, or 11 million dollars in terms of median US annual incomes) Demosthenes asserted his guardians had left nothing "except the house, and fourteen slaves and thirty silver minae" (30 minae = ½ talent).

The women working on the farm will be organized into intensive work groups, and each group will be paid incentives on production and performances, in addition to the standard wages.